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When I write, I solemnly visit myself.

— Fernando Pessoa

More from Fernando Pessoa

  1. I say it because I don't believe.
  2. Life is a thread that someone entangled.
  3. I don't believe in the landscape.
  4. They were two and beautiful and wanted to be something else; love delayed itself to them in the tedium of the future, and regret of what wo…
  5. Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.
  6. Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.
  7. Yet I have no stylistic nobility. My head aches because my head aches. The universe aches me because my head aches.
  8. I exempt you of being present in my idea of you.

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Topics in this quote

  • identity
  • writing
  • creativity
  • ritual
  • self reflection

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